The Spring Festival has not arrived yet, but the West has already arrived first.

I don’t know when the Chinese people started celebrating the foreign festival. A few days ago, portraits of Christmas trees and white-bearded old men were hung at the doors of major stores. Some businesses also took advantage of the two festivals to increase the intensity of discounts and promotions.

As for foreign countries, there is no concept of Spring Festival at all. They celebrate Christmas and New Year's Day, which is equivalent to the Chinese Spring Festival.

As usual, at this time, it is also the time when some major big production videos are released in large numbers, and it is the end of the year.

Some films such as "Resident Evil", "Spider-Man", "Star Wars" have already started the publicity offensive in advance. Although "Pirates of the Caribbean" was promoted a little later, the momentum is also very fierce. Lao Too made up his mind this time and was ready to fight hard with these Hollywood movie giants!

And his behavior is like crazy in the eyes of his peers in China.

You should know that domestic films start late and have low quality, which is an indisputable fact. Compared with Hollywood, which has a history of nearly a hundred years and has produced countless classic films and big-name actors, the history of Chinese films is only a dozen or twenty years, and the films produced are mostly small productions. Although there are also awards such as the Golden Rooster Awards and the Hundred Flowers Awards in China, its influence is simply not comparable to that of Hollywood.

A work by a Chinese director is labeled as "low quality" in the international film industry, and there is no market at all. A few years ago, although one of the few works that won awards in the international film industry was also "Red Sorghum". But speaking of this movie, it is just considered that Chinese characteristics are very "clear", does not have universal representative significance, and there is nothing to be proud of.

But this time, Lao Touzi directly adopted the same magical theme as popular Western movies, and even spent more than 500 million yuan. In the eyes of domestic directors, this is not crazy? Although the early publicity momentum of "Pirates of the Caribbean" was also very strong, almost no one had expectations for this movie, and most of the media were sarcastic.

For example, a domestic first-line director once said in an open press conference that did not directly point out: "Now in China, we are competing with the same genre as Westerners. It is simply an unrealistic fantasy and a madman's behavior."

Faced with all this, Lao Touzi sneered and ignored it at all. He knew the things he had taken by himself, whether it was good or bad, it was not up to these short-sighted guys to decide.

In foreign countries, some media have also paid attention to this new film directed by Chinese directors. But obviously they have not paid much attention. Occasionally, a few short articles also talk about this film in a joking tone. To describe it in the words of a media, this is "a thing that has cost a lot of money but has no idea of ​​the so-called content." Before watching a movie, they have made such comments, which shows how prejudiced Western media is about Chinese films.

Of course, everything depends on the final facts.

December 24th. Christmas Eve.

For Westerners, this is a carnival night, which is no less lively than the Chinese Spring Festival. Especially for many young people, they always have endless energy and countless good ideas to enjoy this wonderful night.

party, drinking, dancing, playing electric, and of course, including watching movies.

At this time, movie feasts are like rushing to enter major theaters. Taking the United States as an example, its theater system is relatively mature. When a movie is shot, as long as the quality is good enough, it can always be released simultaneously in major theaters as soon as possible. And the Americans also have better habits of watching movies. Compared with the big cities in China that only have first-tier and second-tier cities, there are cinemas, and the number of cinemas here is much larger, and the hardware conditions are much better.

This Christmas, including Resident Evil and Star Wars, all of them have appeared. Before that, these films have already made a lot of work in early publicity, waiting for the box office war to begin today. However, the difference this year is that a film from China has also participated in this competition.

This film is of course "Pirates of the Caribbean". It is mixed with so many big-name films, and the words "zhangyimou" are clearly printed in the director's column. This is the only movie directed by a Chinese.

Can it succeed? Can you get a piece of cake under the siege of these masterpieces? Everything needs to be wait and see.

Starting from two o'clock in the afternoon, the Christmas seasons of major theaters have been released at the same time. Compared with those big-name films, the position of "Pirates of the Caribbean" is not good, it is a midnight show. At this time, it is basically the time for young people to have fun, and there are probably not many young people who are left to watch movies in the theaters. But there is no way, Lao Tozi has done his best to be able to enter theaters in Europe and North America. It is impossible to compete with those big guys for the prime time.

The domestic release will take another week tonight. For well-known reasons - review.

It is well known that the review of domestic movies is strict and slow. Although it is not as complete as foreign rating system, in fact, the review of movies in China is stricter and the filtering of bad information should be more detailed. A famous game "World of Warcraft" developed by Blizzard is a very clear example. When this game was launched in China, it was difficult to get overwhelmed and modified many times before it was finally allowed to be launched. Some of the special effects in it have been modified beyond recognition.

If Lao Touzi had many good friends in the system and had given him a lot of help, he might not have been able to reach the delay of the release of a week.

The movie has been released, and Lao Touzi can't do anything now, just sitting at home waiting for news.

At this moment, he looked a little uneasy, and such emotions had not appeared on him for more than ten years. At this time, he was clearly a primary school student waiting for the exam results.

"Director Zhang, don't be so nervous, don't worry, the results of this film are unfair." Liu Yufan said with a smile, turned around and took out a bottle of red wine from his wine cabinet, poured two glasses and handed him a glass.

"Thank you." Lao Touzi took the wine handed over by Liu Yufan, nodded at him, and then took a small sip. The fragrant red wine fell into her stomach. Lao Touzi's mood seemed to relax a little.

At this time, not only him, but many domestic film companies were paying attention to the trends of this film.

Of course, their mentality is very complicated. As competitors, they do not want Lao Touzi to succeed. After all, the domestic market share is so large. If he succeeds, it means his own failure, and this is obviously not what they are willing to see. But from the perspective of domestic film colleagues, Lao Touzi entered the international film industry with such passion, they hope that Lao Touzi can really be strong in the international market and help them exhale this anger in their hearts! This is really a very contradictory mentality.

Of course, as ordinary audiences, their mentality is much easier. If you like it, you will watch it. If you don’t like it, you won’t watch it. It’s a very simple thing.

Tommy is a movie fan, an absolute fan. At the age of 18, like many boys of the same age, he likes to sit in the theater with chicken corn and enjoy the big screen. He especially likes movies with strong visual impact such as war, science fiction, disaster, etc. This is why, today on Christmas, he made an appointment with a few friends who also like to watch TV and prepared to enjoy a new movie dinner.

Since the Christmas strongest Christmas seasons are released at the same time, Tommy and his friends have bought a package ticket, which is a kind of ticket that can be seen from the beginning and a cycle. Of course, this kind of welfare benefits is not often encountered. Only when there are strong seasons such as summer seasons or Christmas seasons will the theater launch this kind of promotional method.

Today, Tommy has Tommy’s favorite "Star Wars" and "Resident Danger". For these two films, Tommy has long watched the poster promotion, and her yearning for it has been more than one or two days.

Tommy chose the prime time from 7pm to 12pm. Although there are the most people at this time and may be a little crowded, Tommy likes this feeling. When watching movies, it is only interesting to see a lot of people. Stay at home and watch videos? Tommy, a movie fan, it is very boring.

At about seven o'clock, Tommy and his friends walked into the theater, found their seat number and sat down.

Tommy's location is good, it's eighth row and tenth. This is a very comfortable viewing location and he is very satisfied.

The lights in the theater went dark and the film was officially released.

The first to appear was "Resident Evil". The early publicity of this film is very impactful and especially catered to the appetites of some young people. Thinking about those zombies, Tommy felt it exciting.

The plot of the film is very compact and it grabs everyone's attention from the beginning.

"Oh my god, those zombies are so scary!"

"Run quickly, he's here!"

As the plot progressed, bursts of screams rang out in the theater.

This is indeed a great movie. It can be said that it pioneered the zombie movie. During the more than an hour of screening, the audience followed the camera and harshly became addicted to fighting zombies. Of course, a few girls were scared to tears because the scenes of the movie looked really bloody.

The next "Star Wars" series made science fiction fans feel a bit addicted. The realistic space warships, science fiction weapons, and fierce fighting scenes all made these movie fans feel excited!

This year's Christmas show seems to be better than any previous year. Each of these videos is so exciting that it is midnight without realizing it, but these young people are not tired at all!

Soon, it was the last movie's turn.
Chapter completed!